** BendyBadgers Bonus Ball Special Christmas Draw **

As the big day approaches, just 1 week to go I thought I would do a special draw.

As it is the Christmas Draw then the prize is a little more special than usual. The winner will get anything up to £40 (or USD/Euro equivalent) value shipped from Amazon.

There will also be second and third place mystery prizes.

I have enlisted some help and @Legoboy has stepped up and gathered the help of 2 Bendy Elves to help with the draw and will hopefully have a grand drawing video for the results on Sunday

The draw will take place on Sunday 20th so all entries before Midnight on Saturday 19th December will be entered into the draw

No great rush as the draw will allow for the first 100 people this time. If you can keep comments to a minimum until the list of 100 entries is put up by me that will help me out with task and prevent any duplicate entry mistakes.

Hardest question of the year though. So get your thinking caps on

Who would you vote for as member of the year? (I am excluded from the vote as I asked the question so don't vote for me as it won't make your chance of winning any greater :) )

Comments

@SirKevbags for the obvious reason, he's tireless in continuing to turn fairy bricks from a very generous and fun brickset community into an international charity helping thousands of kids. And he had a heart attack doing it.

That's a tough one, there's at least 5-6 I could vote for for different reasons. I'm going for Chris @iso3200. He's helped me get hard to find polys at cost on multiple occasions and also PAB cups, and has even predicted that I was after some things before I knew it :-)

A really close second was @silentmode for all his work on swapfig, but as that is not strictly brickset business he got pipped at the post (sorry Drew).

I vote for that guy with the name that's kinda like that little green guy from Star Trek. Yadi, Yidda, Yopa...something like that. Anyway, that guy is...

...oh sorry, I guess I shouldn't vote for myself.

Anyway, I'd put in my vote for @SumoLego. Funny, informative, and the first person I've ever sold LEGO to. And not in an (evil?) reseller way, but in a "I want this part of the set and he wants this other part" way.

As we can't vote for @bendybadger by his own rules, I'd probably go for @SumoLego for some great trades and for his constant sense of humour... plus he went out of his way to get some non-LEGO items for me, which I had despaired of ever getting!! Much appreciated!

Special mentions for @iso3200 for his generosity in offering sets at cost to other members, @drdavewatford and @CapnRex101 for their reviews and, of course, @Huw - the Father of Brickset!!

As many others have commented, I've vote for @SirKevbags. With honorable mentions going to @bendybadger for this great fun that draws us all together on an almost-weekly basis, and @Huw for hosting the party.

Thank you @bendybadger for doing yet another but extra special draw. You are definitely among my list of members of the year. Thank you to those that mentioned me. That's very kind of you, but I don't think I really do anything much.

@Russell844 and @Legopants, both of you find gents have helped me out in return, so we're quits in my book. @chuckp deserves a special mention because we just recently did a thoroughly pleasant trade, where he was encouraging me too add more to the things I was receiving from him and then he still added extra surprises in for me after that!

I'd say of course @SirKevbags deserves to be nominated for his charitable works, as do @cheshirecat and @jujem71 who are also part of the FB team. @shib as well as being a really funny and nice guy is a brilliant Fairy Ambassador too, always got a smile on as he charms people into buying raffle tickets.

@drdavewatford and @Huw for so many reasons deserve to be nominated, not least for bringing together a bunch of us in Billund to have an absolutely amazing time.

EddieDoesntMind. He was the one to first post a link to the Bat-Pod instructions, and it is because of that set that I discovered the forums. I have to say, everyone in that discussion was extremely friendly and helpful to each other, which is why I continued reading on here.

Just to be a bit different (as I agree with everyone who's already been voted for but wish to share the love) @vitreolum. Simply because when I see he has posted a new moc I actually get excited to see what it's going to be!

I've been really inactive on here for several months due to personal problems, but everybody here is amazing, and I was quite surprised that people even remembered me when I finally resumed my activity here with a post on the Brickset Secret Santa.

But since I can't vote for everybody (as much as I'd like to), I'll say that there are some members who have gone the extra mile and I will always be thankful to them. You know who you all are. But I'll ultimately vote for @CapnRex101 - not only for the work he does for this site with his great reviews, but he also made the Brickset Secret Santa a thing, and well, he's just an awesome guy with a wealth of knowledge :o)